Table 3. Concordance between HCV SRT-PCR and PBMCs PCR.

Serum real-time HCV PCR result	PBMCs HCV PCR
	RNA sense strand, n (%)		RNA antisense strand, n (%)
	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative
Positive SRT-PCR and IgG-Abs (n = 63)	63 (100)	0 (0)	63 (100)	0 (0)
Negative SRT-PCR and IgG-Abs (n = 30)	1 (3.3)	29 (96.7)	0 (0)	30 (100)
p	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0